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Not central Scotland but SE Scotland, someone at work has contacted several companies, one came out to quote and then never got back to him. Getting trades to do any work seems to be hellish at the mo. Plus it’s the school holidays so a lot of people are on holiday.

We had several of those in our caravan. They worked pretty well TBH.

@PeterW did you say your PI was up to date

Yep, that's how it is when you are trying really hard to learn new skills that are alien to you. I try not to stress about it now. Tomorrow is a new day and when you next start a task you will be better prepared. No point in wading in and screwing it all up is there. Let the guys here be your guide.

I feel like that every time I do something TBH but this forum is amazing and generally sets me right. You'll be fine.

Probably only when you're being an arse

I can think of a few things way more painful than blowing raspberries TBH ....

Well either you or the forum fairy fixed it then

Now I'm going to kill myself as you quoted my typo before I noticed and fixed it!!

I've had an estate agent tell me what had been offered by someone else once, and several times they have said 'they have already rejected an offer above that' when I have been buying houses. I agree it's difficult. I like the fixed price idea up here. Offer that money and get it pretty much and then good to go once the missives are concluded, none of this pulling out the day of exchange or similar.

Wish you were my neighbour @JSHarris. Hope they were grateful!

I would have to have been drinking heavily to even contemplate doing that, and then it would be an even worse idea. No plumber in this neck of the woods wants to do it either ... Why the hell can't you release an air lock somewhere near the ground? What sort of crap design is that??!!

Come to mention it @Onoff, what are you up to? Been mighty quiet on the bathroom front.

This might sound like an odd strategy given that I hadn’t fixed loo number 1 but I dismantled number 3 so that I could fix number 1. I removed the flexible hose from guest bed 2 and moved it to the downstairs shower room. I didn’t want to do that with the second one I dismantled as the inlet valve seems ok in that one so I’m leaving that be and just fitting a new flush valve. That bedroom has only been slept in for 6 nights since the house was built. The inlet In number 3 wasn’t even attached properly which meant it was affecting the flush valve operation! ? The washer I need doesn’t look like a normal tap washer with a small hole, it’s more a ring that goes around the outside as per the photo. Larger size is half inch, smaller is 3/8” and that’s the one I need. If not called ‘tap washers’ what are they? Anyway I fitted the swapped hose, (tightened carefully by hand @Nickfromwales ?) and it all seems to work. No leaks, water shuts off immediately when it gets to the correct level and flushes ok. Happy days. I still have to refit the flush plate but I’m going to leave that for a few days to ensure that everything is ok first. Just numbers 2-6 to sort now ?

A friend had this a number of years ago. He immediately got 4 offers up to 25k over what he was looking for. He went back to those and said re offer around the 275 mark and then secured his buyer. I think if I was buying a house that I really wanted I would like to know what I would need to offer to secure it rather than be kicking myself that I hadn't offered a couple of grand more.

@Onoff added the blue dpc after addressing the gaps around the window and before plasterboarding so you should be good to go in getting your gaps / draught sorted today. I think he said somewhere that you could even use rubble sacks for the dpm.

Well practice makes perfect as they say. The problem I have now is that almost everything I have to do around the house is my first attempt at it, so basically everything starts off with me having no clue and then after watching YouTube videos on the subject for eons nothing replaces how something actually 'feels' when you come to do it yourself. People who do these jobs over and over clearly rely on their muscle memory a lot which is 80% of the battle. I am starting from both a knowledge and muscle memory position of zero I have never used a torque wrench in my life and probably wouldn't recognise one if it hit me over the head

Yep! It's always quite tempting to do everything up as tight as you can especially when imaging the flood of biblical proportions that will ensue if you don't. And then that oh sh1t moment when you hear it break on the final 'just one more turn for good measure'

Damage my nail polish? ?? ? Can’t have that! I’ll be gentle as always ?. By the time I get to do number 6 I may have worked out what I’m doing ?.

The components are metal. Metal pipe screwing onto metal pipe, rubber washer.

So you mean my plan of getting the grippers and doing it up as tight as I could get it wasn't a good one then ...

Too big. I had to change the fitting on the inlet valve to the 3/8" one so assume I need 3/8" washers? These be ok? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Assorted-Tap-Washers-Inch-Pack/dp/B008IFOK5A/ref=sr_1_4?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1532857538&sr=1-4&keywords=tap+washer+3%2F8"

It can be a bit like that here. I've seen houses on the market for years and then sell. I know what you mean but at least you will get the house you want at the end of it all. And when the other house sells, happy days.

Fab, thanks!

Aye, but being thick and not knowing what size to get should I just go for something like this? Will a washer stop the water leaking from both sides of the connector? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fixman-961227-Assorted-Washers-120-Piece/dp/B01LSCUZS0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1532812374&sr=8-6&keywords=washer+pack